On a trip to Washington D.C. with his parents he attended Theodore Roosevelt's presidential inauguration. He met and talked with the President twice later in life. He also remembered President McKinley's funeral train passing by the family farm.

When he and Rosa retired they moved to Grants Pass, Oregon where they eventually bought a country store which they named Burnett's Grocery.

Click here to view a tribute to Stewart by his grand daughter, Katherine Anne Burnett Peterson.